The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-01-25
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

! Philadelphia girls are taking TO
dumb-bell exercise. One dealer sold
thirty pairs of three-pound bells in ono
day lately.
A prisoner i'm the Santa Clara
County Jail. California, has invented
water wheel which l. said to he great
Improvement OH the turbine wheel.
"A bald-headed citizen of Iowa had
his wife. who is very skillfuI with
brush, paint spider on the top of hi
head to brighten away the tlies.-O Omaha
Bee.
| A seventy-iive pound box of dyna-
mite exploded within eight feet OF
seventeen workingmen the other daT
i'm Birmingham, Ala, and not. one vi
the men was injured.
The railroad-car coal-stoyes should
90. and the oil-lamps should 90 with
them. By-aDd-by they will go. and
we shall have no more awful bonfire.
on the railroad lracks.-N. j. Times.
A bOok-keeper named Doll has
lately taken up his residence i'm Can
ada. Before ne went he took sixty
thousand of the firms IS with him. He
was Il very expensive doll.-DetroH
| Tribune.
| There are twenty-Seven peaks il
Nevada exceeding 10000 feet i'm height
Wheeler'S Peak. 1906 feet above the
level of the sea. has the distinction of
being the highest point in Nevada
| Chicago JoUrHdt.
The theory of the inhabitancy OF
the moon is plauSibly argued in the
affirmative by Dueberg. of Berlin. who
thinks that the further side NAV offer
none of the obstacles tO the conditions
of life peculiar 10 the face presented tc
| the earth.
Says an exchange. Frank Guild.
of Windham. while trying to- remove y
coon from Il trap. shot oil one of his
toes with Il revolver" The trouble
with such paragraphs ~ this i that
one does not know whether his SYM
pathieS should 90 out To MIR. Guild OF
the coon Boston Transcript.
Billy DoUgan. of Leadvillc, shot
and wounded an elk up OH Grand river
and followed il. At dusk ne tracked il
TO clump of timber. and thought he
saw Il mountain lion crouchcd over the
elks body. ~ he fired and killed
Dave lehman, a well-known hunter.
who had come upon the elk. killed it.
and was in the act of skinning the car
cas-.
Several wears ago a citizen of
Lewiston. Me-, became very angry be-
cause the soldiers monument was not !
built where he anted it. Consequently
he stopped work OH building he had
nearly finished and vowed that it
should neither he finished nor torn
down. but remain ~ q blot on the city. |
And thus it remains n tumble-down old |
she'll. Boston Journal.
A nurSe-giri I'm Newark desired to
walk with her beau, aud 50 she left a
two-year-old baby i'm its cart i'm park
The mother came along and took the
child in, and when the girl returned
she simply said: "A man chlOroformed
me and run off with the child. but you
can probably get it back by advertising.
Can 90 TO the ball tonight" Detroit
Free Press.
"A story is told of Welsh jury. |
who. when learned counsel had
opened the case and concluded by say
ing. NOW. gentlemen. | will call be-
fore Won the witnesses who will bear
out the assertions | have made. re-
piled unanimously: "Oh. Mr.. Williams. |
YOU need not give yourself the trouble: |
we can believe YOU" What would not !
barri>ters at the new law courts give |
for such juries now.
Collecting silver spoons i. some |
one declares. a popular form of Eu- |
ropean shopping by American ladies. |
A spoon l. purchased in every city |
which the traveller visits. and the name |
of the city engraved on the bowl of the |
spoon. Nearly every country has
different kind of spoon. and in England, |
ireland and Scotland every city has its |
peculiar mark which must be placed !
OIL all spoons made within it.
Did YOU ever see man who PLAYED |
billiards who would not coniidentially |
tell YOU. as YOU watched his play. that |
he used To play a good game Eyes. |
sir. " he will say. 1.-TWO or three years |
ago when | WAS in practice | could |
double discount this game / IN PLAYING |
now" Whoever heard an honest bill |
lard PLAYER say. IL don't play much J
of game, that's fact, but it's as
W. Il as / ever dido" Mans inability |
la DE truthful is not confined 10 such |
.tories.-Bufdio Express.
The sportsman of the Northwest. |
says the Portland OrcgoHiGH. has no |
mutteringS to make over his variety of |
shooting. He can 90 into Eastern Ore
gon and shoot prairie chickens and fish |
80 - hearts content. Witnif two !
hours travel of the metropolis of the
North Pacific coast he can shoot within !
twenty -four hours elk. deer. panther.
grouse. pheasant, geese. quail, pigeon.
mallard. duck. widgeOn. canvasback,
teal. sprigtail. gray duck. bluebill and
snipe, besides swan and sand-hill |